Made in Lesotho?
A few months ago, I bought a few golf shirts when I was in USA. I bought them over there mainly because there is such a huge selection, the quality is great, and the prices are far cheaper than back home.
So, imagine my suprise when I discovered that one of the shirts that I bought was made in Lesotho, just around the corner (in fact inside) South Africa. This leads to an interesting question. Why is is that I can buy clothing in USA that were made just around the corner for about half what it costs in South Africa?
Our textiles industry has a fascination with the imported Chinese clothing, and how the imports are affecting our textiles industry. However it baffels me that I can buy clothing basically made in South Africa for fall less than it costs to buy a similar product in South Africa. Something doesn’t make sense.
Can somebody please explain?
View my artwork from space
About to years ago, due to a complicated set of circumstances involving my neighbours, myself and the garbage collectors, a large tin of white paint was spilled in the road outside my house, resembling some sort of large modern art (in fact, it actually looks like a Rorschach inkblot test).
We have always joked that it is so large that if you look from space, you will be able to see it. Well, it appears that in fact you can see it from space. If you look at the Google Earth picture above, you can clearly see the artwork inside the yellow circle.
For years we have been threatining to get some more paint, and turn it into a real work of art, perhaps we should do so.
How may people can say that their artwork can be seen from space?
Happy St Patrick’s Day
Happy St Patrick's Day
Have a good glass of Bushmills, a good party and plenty of Irish luck!
May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
Happy St Patrick’s Day, even if he chased the druids of Ireland.
Bizarre online sand game
This is the kind of game that I like – “many dynamics to this game but no goal”. You can play with it for hours, with no goal other than watching the sand patterns forming. You can play here.
Sand Game
Amazing how such a simple concept can create such dynamic patterns. If you enjoy it, there are loads more here.
Enjoy
Blogger sued for criticising a business on his website
A blogger is being sued for defamation by the RCI-affiliated Quality Vacation Club (QVC) for criticising it on his website Insights and Rants.
This is of huge interest to be, because I often write about good and bad service in my Orchids and Onions section of my blog site. Personally, I feel that if you don’t open your business to public scrutiny and comment, you should question your business practises and integrity very closely.
According to Independent Online,
Donn Edwards was phoned by a telemarketer last year and told that he had won a car. All he would have to do to claim his prize, he was told, was attend a prize-giving ceremony in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.
When he and his wife arrived at the venue, they discovered that the prize-giving ceremony was a QVC marketing presentation at which he and his wife, and the other “guests”, were told to choose a key, after the airing of a video, to determine if he had won the car. He had not.
Edwards wrote about his experience, and his unhappiness about being misled, on his blog.The result of this is that QCV are suing him for damages of R461 500.
Pamela Stein, a partner at legal firm Webber Wentzel Bowens, said the blogger would be able to defend his actions on the basis of fair comment.
“The right of fair comment, along with truth for the public benefit, is one of the fundamental rights of free speech,”“I have no doubt that commentary that is in the consumer’s interests is in the public interest.”
It will be a very sad day if RCI win this court case. Freedom of expression, and the right to tell the truth are fundamental rights. If RCI are concerned about Donn’s views, they have every right to respond, to comment and to tell their side of the story. However, in my opinion, a large organisation suing a single person that is unhappy is not the approach to follow.
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